American Forts Network

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Forts, Battlefields, and other Military Historic Sites
Links for individual forts are located under their respective state listings.

Atlantic Canada Coastal Defences (Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit)
Canadian Fur Trade Forts
Civil War Album.com (Civil War site photos)
Civil War Field Fortifications
Coastal Defense - Golden Cresent (National Park Service)
Coastal Fortification on the Gulf of Mexico by Andy Bennett
The Congress Bunker, West Virginia
Formerly Used Defense Sites - FUDS (US Army Corps of Engineers)
Fortifications and Military History by Lee Unterborn
Forts & Battlefields of US & Canada
Fort Tours maps and info for many forts, battlefields and other sites across America
French and Indian War (1754 - 1762) 250th Anniversary travel and historical info for many Northeast US and Canadian sites
Guarding the United States and its Outposts WWII History of US Coastal Defense
International Fortifications by Martin Egger
Military Fortifications of the World by Alain Lecompte
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site article by Archaeology Magazine
National Emergency Command Post - Afloat
Oregon Trail Trading Posts & Forts
Presidios of the Line
SiegeWar.com by Thomas Finley
NIKE Missile Web Site by Ed Thelen
TITAN II Missile Complex Museum
TITAN II Missile Complex Museum
U.S. Air Force Installations
U.S.- Mexican War Historic Sites
US Navy Railway Batteries

Other Interesting Links

American Battlefield Protection Program (National Park Service)
Cherokee Trail to California
Civil War Battle Summaries (National Park Service)
Civil War Preservation Trust
Discovering Lewis and Clark
Biography of Louis Gathmann (inventor of the Gathmann Gun)
Ghost Towns of the American West
The History Channel
The History Channel Traveler
The History Net
History Television (Canada)
History of Hudson's Bay Company
History of Rocky Mountain Fur Trade
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
Lewis and Clark Trail
Military and Naval Flags of the United States
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
The North West Company
The Oregon Trail
End of the Oregon Trail
The Overland Trail
Parks Canada
The Pentagon (US Dept. of Defense)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
SCR-584 Anti-Aircraft Gun Radar System
The Complete Schneider Coast Defense Train as Battery (article/advertisement from Scientific American, Dec. 1913)
Spanish-American War Centennial
U.S. Army Order of Battle: 1914
U.S. Army Ordnance Museum Aberdeen Proving Ground
U.S.- Mexican War (KERA / PBS)

Special Interest Groups

Archaeology Magazine
Army Ground Forces Association
Civil War Fortification Study Group
The Coast Defense Study Group (CDSG)
Company of Military Historians
Company of Military Historians - Southwest Chapter
Council on America's Military Past (CAMP)
Fortress Study Group (FSG)
Military.com
Military Architecture
Railwaygun Web Museum
Site O (International Fortifications and Artillery)
Society for Historical Archaeology
The Society for Military History
Society of the War of 1812

Research Links

Center for Coast Defense
Defense Technical Information Center (US Dept. of Defense)
Endicott-Taft Resource Guide
GPO Publications E-Mail Service
Historical Marker Database
The Hudson's Bay Company Archives
Library of Congress
Military Info Publishing
National Archives (USA)
National Archives (Canada)
National Technical Information Service (US Dept. of Commerce)
U.S. Army Center of Military History
The U.S. Civil War Center (LSU)
U.S. Navy History
Waymarking.com

Web Rings of Interest

The American Military History Webring
Civil War Archives Webring
Civil War Artillery Webring
Civil War Battlefield Preservation Webring
Civil War Heritage Webring
The Fortress Webring
The Historical U.S. Military Installations Site Ring
The History Web Ring
Spanish-American War Webring
World War II Webring

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